Pabon and Benidalys Rivera-Barrero, 32, were arrested during a drug raid Jan. 19, 2011, at 83 Cleveland St.

At the time of the raid police said they were “major suppliers of cocaine in the Springfield area.”

Pabon is on trial first, after lawyers for both Pabon and Rivera-Barrero successfully asked the court for separate trials.

Assistant District Attorney Matthew J. Shea had opposed having the two tried separately.

Vincent A. Bongiorni, Pabon’s lawyer, said Pabon was not involved in the cocaine business, even though he was there sleeping when police raided the apartment. He presented Pabon as the innocent one of the co-defendants.

Tardiff said when the large raid team entered the apartment in the early morning armed with a search warrant, Pabon was sleeping in the master bedroom where 370 grams of cocaine was found in a bag hanging in the closet.

Tardiff said a bureau drawer was open and drug paraphernalia – such as a scale, baggies and a substance for cutting the drug – was in plain sight.

Rivera-Barrero was in another bedroom with her 2-year-old and 13-year-old children, he said. The adults were handcuffed and they and the children were brought into the living room, he said.

There were both women’s and men’s clothes in the closet where the drugs were found, Tardiff said.

Bongiorni questioned Tardiff on how he could prove Pabon had a connection to the apartment other than being there when the raid happened.

Tardiff said while doing surveillance he saw the van Pabon was driving at the address on a number of mornings.

When Bongiorni asked if there were any photos in the house of Pabon, or of Pabon with Rivera-Barrero, Tardiff said there were not.

“No cable, phone bills in his name?” Bongiorni asked. Tardiff said there were not, but that there was a key to the apartment “right next to” Pabon’s wallet on a table.

Tardiff said police arranged two controlled buys of drugs through Rivera-Barrero before they got the search warrant.